Gallowbraid
Adventurist
Kids in school are no longer told to sit "Indian style" as I was in elementary school. It's now called "criss cross apple sauce".
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Kids in school are no longer told to sit "Indian style" as I was in elementary school. It's now called "criss cross apple sauce".
I think so. Makes a neat noise.
Optimistic Paranoid
Adventurist
WORST. JOB. EVER. ?
So-called “content moderators” on Facebook — tasked with vetting user posts that have been flagged for pornographic material, graphic violence
or hate speech — are so traumatized by their work that they’ve resorted to smoking weed, spouting conspiracy theories and even having sex on the
job, according to reports.
...These content moderators earn $28,800 a year — a fraction of the $240,000 average annual haul of a median Facebook employee — and are
expected to perform their jobs with 95 percent accuracy.
“It’s a strain. I don’t know what I’m going to see,” one contractor at Accenture told Bloomberg. “I don’t have a problem with nudity — that’s
what I signed up for — but then there are random beheadings.”
Employees who are fired for not properly auditing routinely threaten their former coworkers, according to the report, prompting one
supervisor to begin bringing a gun to work with him in the event that an interaction becomes violent.
It’s not just videos of graphic violence that have to be vetted by the army of moderators; employees also must review photos and videos of
child pornography and bestiality, as well as an endless stream of conspiracy theories.
One auditor, the Verge reports, now believes that the Earth is flat, while another has become convinced that 9/11 was a government
conspiracy. A third moderator “has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust,” according to the report.
More here: https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/trauma-a-job-hazard-for-facebook-content-moderators/
So-called “content moderators” on Facebook — tasked with vetting user posts that have been flagged for pornographic material, graphic violence
or hate speech — are so traumatized by their work that they’ve resorted to smoking weed, spouting conspiracy theories and even having sex on the
job, according to reports.
...These content moderators earn $28,800 a year — a fraction of the $240,000 average annual haul of a median Facebook employee — and are
expected to perform their jobs with 95 percent accuracy.
“It’s a strain. I don’t know what I’m going to see,” one contractor at Accenture told Bloomberg. “I don’t have a problem with nudity — that’s
what I signed up for — but then there are random beheadings.”
Employees who are fired for not properly auditing routinely threaten their former coworkers, according to the report, prompting one
supervisor to begin bringing a gun to work with him in the event that an interaction becomes violent.
It’s not just videos of graphic violence that have to be vetted by the army of moderators; employees also must review photos and videos of
child pornography and bestiality, as well as an endless stream of conspiracy theories.
One auditor, the Verge reports, now believes that the Earth is flat, while another has become convinced that 9/11 was a government
conspiracy. A third moderator “has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust,” according to the report.
More here: https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/trauma-a-job-hazard-for-facebook-content-moderators/
Kevin LaCroix
Adventurist
What a shit job.
You can't fix stupid...hiker goes around a locked gate at Yosemite, pays the ultimate price.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Yosemite-death-Mist-Trail-falling-rock-13643448.php
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Yosemite-death-Mist-Trail-falling-rock-13643448.php
goin camping
Adventurist
It is grim when that is your job for that pay.
Optimistic Paranoid
Adventurist
Dragons are Real!
A photographer in Iceland just got the first picture of one in the night sky.
Man, what a once-in-a-lifetime picture. (assuming it wasn't Photoshopped)
A photographer in Iceland just got the first picture of one in the night sky.
Man, what a once-in-a-lifetime picture. (assuming it wasn't Photoshopped)
Gallowbraid
Adventurist
Eye drops are technically blinker fluid...
Optimistic Paranoid
Adventurist
The one on the bike, or one of the ones lying on the ground?
Usually the one on the bike. Evel Knievel was a childhood hero. I could clear 12 old school steel trash cans...my "Ceasar's Palace" was attempting 13...it went horribly wrong, mostly because the front wheel fell off of my old Schwinn Sting Ray as soon as I got airborne!
brentbba
Adventurist
That's been the case since my kids started kindergarten and they are 30 and 29 now! Ancient news!
Yet, just wait for the lawsuit from the family and the multi-million dollar lawsuit against the National Parks that will be won by the plaintiff because the locked gate was not enough of a deterrent or some other nonsense!
4x4x4doors
Adventurist
Wanna bet this will never be as popular as the Tide pod challenge?
